Sixteen-month-olds understand the link between words and mental representations of their referents without contextual support. - Elena Luchkina; David M. Sobel; James L. Morgan (CogSci, 2018)

Sixteen-month-olds comprehend unanchored absent reference. - Elena Luchkina; Fei Xu; David M. Sobel; James L. Morgan (CogSci, 2020)

Semantic priming supports infants' ability to represent and name unseen objects. - Elena Luchkina; Sandra Waxman (CogSci, 2022)

Twelve-month-olds can imagine objects they have never seen and learn their names. - Elena Luchkina; Sandra Waxman (CogSci, 2023)

Social contingency facilitates infants' vocabulary growth above and beyond language input and attentional spotlighting. - Elena Luchkina; Fei Xu (CogSci, 2023)